Man jailed for six years for raping woman 20p short of bus fare home

A rapist was jailed for at least six years for attacking a student who had been turfed off her last bus home because she was 20p short of the fare.

Joseph Moran was branded a ‘pathological liar’ by the judge (Picture: PA)

Joseph Moran was branded a ‘pathological liar’ by the judge who sentenced him for the rape of the 23-year-old woman.

Judge James Sampson said to Moran: ‘You claimed to have come across her and claimed to have come to her aid.’

He said his lies were ‘reprehensible’ and called the 19-year-old ‘a man without an ounce of remorse or shame’.

The woman was attacked in Nottingham on December 9 last year after a driver refused to let her board the last bus to Mansfield because she was 20p short of the £5 fare.

Fuelled by drink and drugs, Moran pounced on her as she walked along the road and dragged her into undergrowth where he subjected her to an appalling attack lasting 25 minutes.

She suffered 26 injuries across her body and was left permanently scarred, Nottingham crown court was told.

Judge Sampson told Moran the victim was ‘intelligent, hard-working, brave, full of the optimism of youth and who, but for want of a small act of kindness, was left isolated and vulnerable in the small hours of the city’.

Moran, from Sneinton, Nottingham, was sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of six and half years in a young offenders’ centre.